Alex Gladstein – Peter McCormack

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and a leading advocate for Bitcoin's role in promoting freedom. In this episode, we discuss his work empowering activists under authoritarian regimes, the structural issues facing human rights funding, and how technology like Bitcoin are transf

“Imagine if it was a democratic process…and the government went to the people and said ‘hey who wants a 44% reduction in their purchasing power next Wednesday?’ Zero people would raise their hands obviously…devaluations can never be democratic; but the economic part of it is the hidden repression – this is the part the

“You talk about the CIA and American foreign policy during the Cold War…that’s like level one. We’re on a second level here, the IMF and World Bank are operating on a meta-level, like we’re above Cold War politics, we’re at the level of timeless, strong countries abusing poor countries; this is way beyond the Cold War.

“Bitcoin stands alone in the world as the only currency that’s non-political. And that’s why I think it’s the only one that has a shot to be this neutral reserve asset that would be globally restraining equally among all players.” — Alex Gladstein Location: San Francisco Date: Monday 7th February Project: Human Rights

“What I care about isn’t that Bitcoin succeeds, or that Ethereum succeeds, or that any specific project succeeds. What I care about is separating money from state; the entire financial system being built on market principles instead of coercion.” — Erik Voorhees Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 16th November Project: H

“It’s reasonable to think that in the next 10-15 years, we’ll start seeing a real shift. Whether it’s to a bi-polar world or a multi-polar world or potentially a world where we no longer have the petrodollar as the reserve currency… but rather, maybe the Bitcoin standard.” — Alex Gladstein Location: Remotely Date: Mond